BURGESS HILL THEATRE CLUB HISTORY

1965 - 1969

1965
1965 - 1966 Season: Chairman Awaiting Confirmation


1966
1966 - 1967 Season: Chairman Awaiting Confirmation
1967 - Life Membership: June Colledge

Between 1966 - 1967, the Mid Sussex Times ran a series of articles featuring interviews with some of the local amateur theatre group personalities at that time. It's not clear just how many featured BHTC members, but so far we've come across the articles involving June Colledge and in 1967, Sheila Wells and Anthony White.

(1966) June Colledge Press Article

1967
1967 - 1968 Season: Chairman Awaiting Confirmation
1967 - Life Membership: Jim Towell


(1967) Sheila Wells Press Article
(1967) Anthony White Press Article

In November of 1967, a fire gutted the dressing rooms and other parts of the Park Centre, leaving the club with a quandry that having already sold tickets for the January 1968 Pantomime (Mother Goose), they had nowhere to perform. Luckily the Oakmeads school headmaster was kind enough to agree for the club to perform there until in the following year, the Park Centre was re-built and regularly utilised again


(1968) Fire at the Park Centre
(1968) Fire at the Park Centre
(1968) Fire at the Park Centre
1968
1968 - 1969 Season: Chairman Awaiting Confirmation


1969
1969 - 1970 Season: Chairman Awaiting Confirmation
1969 - Life Membership: Elsie Fisher


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